This exhibition was created as part of the CEF-project Europeana Common Culture
Project partners
Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (Portugal)
Central Institute for the Union Catalogue of Italian Libraries and Bibliographic Information (Italy)
Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture (Cyprus)
Cyprus University of Technology (Cyprus)
Consortium of Estonian Libraries Network (Estonia)
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
Europeana Foundation (Netherlands)
Flemish Government, Department for Culture, Youth & Media (Belgium)
KU Leuven (Belgium)
Martynas Mazvydas National Library of Lithuania (Lithuania)
Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte, (Spain)
National and University Library of Slovenia (Slovenia)
National Documentation Centre, Greece
National Heritage Institute (Romania)
National Library of Finland (Finland)
National Library of Latvia (Latvia)
National Library of Serbia (Serbia)
Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid (Netherlands)
Pencho Slaveykov Regional Library (Bulgaria)
Petőfi Literary Museum (Hungary)
PSNC (Federacja Bibliotek Cyfrowych) (Poland)
Riksantikvarieämbetet- Swedish National Heritage Board (Sweden)
Trinity College Dublin (Ireland)
UMA Information Technology (Austria)
Exhibition curators
Larissa Borck, Swedish National Heritage Board
Adrian Murphy, Europeana Foundation
Sofie Taes, KU Leuven
Editor
Beth Daley, Europeana Foundation
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Thanks to:
Karīna Bandere, Valentine Charles, Adina Ciocoiu, Beth Daley, Patrick Ehlert, Tina Enci, Sara di Giorgio, David Iglésias Franch, Susan Hazan, Dovilė Ivanovienė, Natalia Jeszke, Gina van der Linden, Serafia Kari, Elena Lagoudi, Jozefina Milanovski, Dominik Nostitz, Helena Patrício, Ad Pollé, Dáire Rooney, Aleksandra Strzelichowska, Dov Winer, Artūrs Žogla.
Further reading
Christmas
Chinese New Year
8 things you should know about Chinese New Year
Professional mourning in Finland
Finnish association dedicated to keep the practice of lamenting alive
J.M. WILCE, Crying Shame: Metaculture, Modernity, and the Exaggerated Death of Lament, John Wiley & Sons, 2009.
Śmigus-dyngus
C. MACKAY, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, London, 1841.
F. GAWELEK, Palma, jajko i śmigus w praktykach wielkanocnych ludu polskiego, in Lud : kwartalnik etnograficzny, 17, 1911, 1.
The burning of Morė
C. MACKAY, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, London, 1841.
Hanukkah
Hanukkah, Jewish Museum Berlin
Gioco del Ponte
Descrizione del Gioco del Ponte di Pisa. Sestine del Canonico --- per la venuta d'illustri personaggi, Antonio Del Rosso, Austrian National Library
Panigyria
Village fairs (panigyria), dance and social groups in the village of Faraklita, Kefalonia, Greece, Varvara Kosmatou, National Library of Serbia
Carnival
Carnival King of Europe explores carnival as a European cultural phenomenon. A collaborative project, supported by the Culture Programme of the European Union
Swedish traditions and celebrations
Nordiska museet: Årets dagar